Planning & Zoning Board — Aug 15, 2023

It is 6 o'clock. Welcome. I'd like to call to order the planning and zoning meeting for the city plantation on August 15th, 2023. City Clerk, would you please call the roll? Mr. Speer. Present. Mr. Stahl. Present. Ms. Gelfand. Mr. Corman. Here. Mr. Plass. Here. You have a quorum. All right. We have a quorum. So, first order of business is approval of the meeting minutes from July 18th, 2023. Does anybody have any corrections or comments to that particular set of meetings? Move to approve. Second. Okay. We have an approval in a second. Please call the roll. Mr. Speer. Yes. Mr. Stahl. Yes. Ms. Gelfand. Mr. Corman. Yes. Mr. Plass. Yes. Thank you. All right. Item number two, there is the approval of the meeting minutes July 11th, 2023 through the planning and zoning board meetings. Anybody have a correction to that one or comment about it? Move to approve. Second. Move to approve and a second. Please call the roll. It already happened. Mr. Speer. Yes. Mr. Stahl. Yes. Ms. Gelfand. Mr. Corman. Yes. Mr. Plass. Yes. Thank you. All right. Item number one is public hearing PP 230035, a consideration of request to amend chapter 27 of the city code of ordinance pertaining to the subject of zoning and land development, specifically accessory dwelling units, ADUs, and pool houses, and accessory uses and standards. It's my understanding that they have requested this one to be continued to the next meeting. Good afternoon, everyone. For the record, Dan Holmes, planning and zoning, economic development director. That is correct, Mr. Chair. We were requesting to continue this item. All right. And that would be to a date certain, correct? Or do we not even have to vote on this one? Well, we're thinking September. Okay. Thank you. That was a question. Then I would like to motion to continue. Thank you. Totally lost that word. To continue this particular agenda item to the September 12, 2023 meeting. 6 p.m. At 6 p.m. in City Hall, City Council Chambers, City of Plantation. Second. We have a motion and a second. Please call the roll. Mr. Speer. Yes. Mr. Stahl. Yes. Ms. Gelfand. Mr. Corman. Yes. Mr. Plass. Yes. Thank you. All right. Next two items fall under quasi-judicial. We are going to have a slight noting of the rules relative to that, which our city attorney will go into. Quentin, you have to read the instructions first. Yeah, before we do, I just want to make clear for the record that item P.M. 22-0070 is not quasi-judicial. It's just misprinted on the agenda, and that will be an item for a regular public hearing. But we will have the items considered as far as the presentations together, and then we'll vote separately on them. But item P.M. 23-0068 is a quasi-judicial item. Prior to going into the item, I will read through the quasi-judicial process, and then I'll ask the applicant's representative to come up to waive the rules if they choose to do that. And then we'll proceed with the business of this board. At the conclusion of these remarks, I will swear in all the witnesses for that quasi-item, and ask you when you come up to make your presentation or speak, that you state your name and swear that you've been, or state that you've been administered the oath. If there is cross-examination of questions, those questions can be asked by the board or the city or the applicant. We have no one registered as an affected party, so we will have no one else for the party status in this matter. The city staff will make the first presentation, followed by the applicant. And at the conclusion of the hearing, the matter will be closed and decided by the planning board, who will have the ability with its motion to approve or not the item, or have any additional issues that they see by deciding to add in any conditions that they see fit to approval of the item. With that being said, and they also have the ability to table or delay the item if they choose to do so, if needing additional information. If you have any testimony you plan on giving or may give, please stand and raise your right hand on item PM 23-0068. You swear upon the testimony you'll give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. You may be seated, Mr. Chairman. I would like for a representative from the applicant just to, for the record, waive the quasi-judicial form of process. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Jana Lodem. I'm an attorney for RPT Realty, and we do waive the quasi-judicial procedures. Thank you. Thank you. Great. Staff, if you would, with your presentation. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is application PP22-0070. It is a site plan amendment elevation and landscape plan approval to construct a 29,365 square foot grocery store. It's also a conditional use approval to allow a 2,700 square foot liquor store in the city's BFCC, which is a four corners commercial district. And there are eight zoning and landscape waivers from Chapter 27 of the code that are part of this request. And there is also, under application PM23-0068 on the agenda, there is also a physical variance from Section 9-29D of the code to increase the allowable percentage of the site that is impervious from 65 to 82.95. And I'll get into that. The site is already not consistent with it, so I know that seems pretty high, but it's an older site and is not consistent with the 65% at this particular point. But we'll get into that as part of the variance, and the applicant is also here to talk about their mitigation strategies in that regard. So the location of the site is located at the northeast corner of Broward Boulevard and North State Road 7. The address is 3901 West Broward Boulevard, and this is the zoning map. The site is highlighted there, or the parcel is highlighted there, cross-hatched in blue. To the north of that is the city's BHC, which is a hybrid commercial zoning. The site itself, as indicated, is four corners commercial. To the south of the site is also four corners commercial. And one of the parcels to the east, the shopping center, is also zoned four corners commercial. And then there is a multifamily residential development, which falls under the city's BHCS, which is the health care services zoning designation. This is the aerial photo of the site. You can see to the north there are single-family residential uses and also some retail uses that are located along the north of State Road 7 corridor. To the, there's an out parcel that is located directly east of the site, which is a fast food restaurant. To the south of the site is some mixed-use development here. And, again, this is a shopping center that's located directly west. And then there's some multifamily residential apartments that's located also to the west of the site. And just to kind of give you some existing conditions, this is an existing photo of the shopping center. It's one of the city's older shopping centers in the city. Most of the more recent development in the area has taken place on the out parcels to the city. And then you can see to the north and to the northeast, I should say, of the site, the single-family that is located there. That is completely within the jurisdiction of the city of Florida Hill. These are some pictures of the shopping center just to orient you. Again, as I said, the shopping center has existed for quite some time. And just some context. Again, as I said, most of the newer development has been on out parcels. This is at the top you see the Wendy's fast food out parcel, which is located to the east of the parcel. And then right at the corner of North State Road 7 and Broward Boulevard is a Chase bank that was constructed several years ago. And, again, to the east, I talked about some of the multifamily residential apartments, the Windsor apartments. We show also, even though it's located much further north, some newer development that has taken place. The Plantation Ford kind of did a facade renovation recently. And there's also the Pearl that's located to the south. And also the Wawa for those, I don't know if any of you were on the board at that time. Maybe Mr. Stahl was when it was approved. You can see that at the top there. So those are kind of the context around the site in terms of the development. So this is the site plan that the applicant is proposing. The building that's highlighted in yellow is the building that is undergoing a site plan modification. The other buildings in the shopping center are not proposed for any major modification, although at some point they will undergo some of the elevation changes to match the changes that are taking place here. Again, there's some reconfiguration of the bays and parcels, the bays that are located here for the location of a grocer. And there's also, as you recall, a conditional use associated with it for a liquor store. And that liquor store would be located in, it's proposed to be located in the bay just east of the grocer. There's also some reconfiguration of the parking, which I'll talk about a little more, a bit more about in just a moment. Currently, the parking is 90-degree parking. And there's several ingress, egress points into the site. And there's some ingress, egress points also along Northwest 38th Way as well. So parking reconfiguration, as I said, currently the parking that's located in front of the retail in this building here is 90-degree parking. The applicant is proposing to modify that to angle parking. So this is a major change to the site. There will be, as part of that change to the angle parking, there will be some trees that will be removed from the parking area. And there will be some trees that will be relocated on other portions of the parcel, as you see highlighted there in yellow. And there's also one of the things, and we'll talk a bit more about the pervious pavers that the applicant is proposing to try to come into closer compliance with the impervious requirements that we talked about previously on the site. Open space, the proposed open space area is some of the new open spaces being added. It's kind of highlighted there in green. And some of the existing open space area is highlighted there in purple. Again, zoning district standards are for a minimum open space of 30%. The provided for this site is 17%. This is elevations that are proposed for the building. You can see at the top the east elevation, the south elevation for the building, the west elevation, and the north elevation. And then this is the northwest elevation, southwest elevation, northeast elevation, and southeast elevation of the other retail building that's located within the parcel. So this is retail building B that you see the elevations for here. And then there's also a small little retail building C that's located here, and these are the proposed elevations for that building. Just some renderings here to kind of give you a feel for what the new architectural look of the shopping center will be. And you can see here the grocer is located here, and, again, the proposed liquor store will be located in the First Bay just to the west of the grocery. Some more pictures here. Again, you see the angle parking that's being proposed as well. And this is a view of the shopping center if you were traveling north along North State Road 7 just as you cross over Broward Boulevard. This is sort of the angle at which you would see or experience the shopping center. So, as I said, there's several zoning waivers that are proposed as part of the proposed application. The first waiver is from Section 27255C1. This section of the code requires that interior landscape islands not be located more than 10 parking spaces apart and shall be a minimum of 12 feet wide. The applicant is proposing to – well, there's four of those would be required pursuant to the code. The applicant is proposing, based upon the reconfiguration of the parking, that they will be providing zero interior landscape islands. Waiver number two is from Section 27255C3 requires 10-foot-wide landscape parking dividers when parking directly abuts adjacent drive aisles and for every other bay which has head-to-head parking. There are currently, with the 90-degree parking, there are six of these. They are proposed to be removed, and the applicant is not proposing to replace any of those landscape parking dividers. Waiver number three is from Section 27255D1 requires principal buildings shall contain a landscape pedestrian zone along the length of each building facade that fronts parking, drive aisles, or other vehicular use areas of vehicular use areas, waiver – the applicant is requesting a waiver to eliminate the required LPZ length along the south elevation. This is the south elevation here, so this entire length here, the applicant is proposing to eliminate that LPZ. Section 27255D2 pertains to the width of the landscape pedestrian zone and states that it shall be 50% of the height of the building. So we talked about the length before, this is the width of it, and the applicant is proposing to waive the width of it. It would be required to be 20 feet under the code, and the applicant is proposing to waive that. One of the waivers that was not requested or identified, but was identified by staff, but was not a final request by the applicant, was a waiver from Section 27255D5, which requires one shade tree for every 30 lineal feet of the LPZ under the code. Eight shade trees would be required. This is, again, on the south elevation. Again, the applicant is proposing to provide zero shade trees within that landscape pedestrian zone. Section 27255B2 requires all properties to provide perimeter landscaping to consist of three trees for every 40 lineal feet adjacent to major roadways. Under this criteria, the applicant along West Broward Boulevard will be required to provide 21 trees in that area. They're proposing to provide 20 trees along the West Broward Boulevard. And waiver number six is from Section 27255B1. It requires a 20-foot perimeter landscape buffer adjacent to major street right-of-way. Request is to maintain the existing 10-foot, 8-foot buffer along State Road 7, the 5.4-foot buffer along Broward Boulevard, and the 5.3-foot buffer along Northwest 38th Way. Section 27128B1, which is the applicant would be required to provide EV parking requirements. Under the code, 10% EV parking required spaces and 2% EV installed spaces, the applicant is requested to provide zero. We have, I will give you somewhat of an update, since we kind of put the report together, we did have some subsequent discussions with the applicant, and they have indicated that they are looking at providing some EV parking along the, I think in this area, the applicant will address what their proposal is during their presentation. Section 27296Y requires screening of rooftop equipment. There would be some screening that would be required here. Based upon the line of sight from this area, you probably would not really be able to see or notice the equipment there, and so there's a waiver that the applicant is requesting from the code as well. Physical variance, impervious area, as we indicated, there is a variance that's requested from Section 9-29D of the city's code that restricts a percentage of sight area that is impervious to 65%. Now, this is a much older shopping center. It does not currently meet that pervious requirement. The applicant has made some modifications. The existing impervious is 83.52%. There is a slight improvement based upon what the applicant is proposing that would improve it to 82.95%. Not a great deal of improvement, but there is some improvement there. We were at some point looking and thought maybe without the parking changes that it could improve slightly more, but the applicant is requesting to do, as I indicated, the angle parking. But there is a, I did want to note that there is some improvements. Again, there's also, the applicant is also building some additional drainage, underground drainage, also to help with the site as well. I'm not the professional to speak on that, so if you have questions in that regard, the city engineer is here tonight to speak on that. So, overall, as I said, staff, as we looked at the site, one of the things that we were not really in agreement with the applicant on, you know, was with regard to the parking configuration. We felt that the parking could remain at 90 degree. I know the applicant has indicated that the retailer that they're interested in bringing to the site has standards where they prefer the angled parking, and that was pretty much what was driving their request for angled parking. But we did have some concerns in that regard. We felt that from some environmental standpoints, if we left it alone, that there would be more trees, and we could reduce possibly heat island effects and some other things. So that was our primary concern. But there are issues that were driving this with them and the applicant or the retailer that they're trying to bring in, and some of the retailer's requirements that kind of frustrated the situation. So, accessibility, we also talked about accessibility to the site. We talked with the applicant about improving, particularly from some of the single-family residential here. The applicant has indicated that they will look at providing a crosswalk in this vicinity to help people navigate this neighborhood and cross Northwest 38th Avenue into the shopping center. We also talked about some additional crosswalks here to help people cross over, people that were taking transit or what have you, so that they could access the shopping center as well. Again, as I said, the parking configuration was one of our concerns in that regard, and we thought that there could be additional landscaping that would be provided on site as well. And then the landscape buffer, we did ask the applicant to kind of look at kind of improving some of the landscape buffers. It is a very tight site. We do recognize that, and the applicant has tried to increase things as much as they could, but this was not an area that they felt that they could modify the plan on. And one of the final things I will say that we did take a look at, I did have some discussions with, this is within the city's community redevelopment area, the CRA. I did have some discussions with the community redevelopment administrator. One of the things that the redevelopment administrator did indicate was some of the economic impacts that would come as a result of the proposed development. This area of the city, we kind of consider there's not many grocery-related stores in that area, so we consider it somewhat of a food desert, and we thought that bringing the grocer to this area would greatly improve the area and kind of address the food desert that exists within the area and also help to improve the economics of the shopping center. I do want to note that at one point, the post office was, there's a post office in there, the post office was going to relocate to another location, but due to the insistence of the community redevelopment administrator with the applicant, they were able to retain the post office at that site, which was positive. And there's also one of the things that we thought was positive, there's a pawn shop that's located in the shopping center as well, that that use will go away as well, so we no longer have that use within the city as part of the overall redevelopment. And I think that that pretty much summarizes some discussions with regard to the community redevelopment agency. So based upon the above, as I said, we went kind of back and forth. There were several issues that we kind of looked at with regard to this site, and I think the economic development consideration sort of outweighed some of the other things that we were not completely happy with, and so overall our recommendation is for approval for the project. So I'm happy to answer any questions. I know the applicant is here as well, and I'm sure would like to say a couple of things. Yeah, if we could, I'd like to do the applicant's presentation, and then we could do the questions all together. I just don't want to be messing with city equipment. Thank you, Dan. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Once again, my name is Jana Loda. I'm an attorney with the law firm of Holland & Knight, and I'm here tonight on behalf of RPT Realty, the owner of the West Broward Shopping Center. We have several members of our project team and ownership here tonight. I'm just going to briefly introduce them. Hopefully I'll be able to answer all your questions, but if not, we have them backing me up. First, we have David Ortner. He is the Senior Vice President of Development. Ms. Sonia Henney, she is the Senior Vice President of Leasing. And Edmy Morin, who is the Director of Leasing for RPT, all with us. We also have Christian Morales from Bowman Engineering. He'll be able to answer any questions you have regarding the landscaping as well as the engineering questions regarding the drainage improvements that we're doing, as well as Natalia Lercari, our traffic engineer. Now, due to some travel issues with our architect, who is not local in Florida, they are available online for any questions with respect to the project architecture that I may not be able to answer. So, again, as Mr. Holmes indicated, before this evening is a proposed redevelopment opportunity for the West Broward Shopping Center. I have quite a lengthy presentation to the extent any of my slides are duplicative or the information. I'll try to quickly skip over that for you. Real quickly, again, as you know, these are the applications that are before you tonight. The main thrust of the application is to redevelop the West inline space to demolish approximately 50,000 square feet and to redevelop in its place a 29,000, approximately 29,000 square foot grocery store. Adjacent to that will also be an additional 2,700 square foot liquor store. Real quickly, again, the property, as you know, is located at the northeast corner of Broward Boulevard and State Road 7. Before I kind of get into the meat of the presentation, I do want to take a moment just to provide you a little bit of a historical development of kind of how we got to where we are today. And with that, I want to just acknowledge the city staff for their time and their assistance and their cooperation and really getting us even to the point that we're here today and to the point of actually filing an application. During the pandemic, the existing Save-A-Lot grocery store that was in the West Broward Shopping Center closed. And RPT was presented with an opportunity to reactivate that space. And knowing kind of the issues that this center has faced in terms of tenant mix, it sought out to attract a nationally-based grocery store chain to the center. And in our endeavor to do that, it required, if you know how these leases go, it required us to get a lot of demographic information and particularly with respect to housing. And staff worked closely with us to help provide us the information of not only the existing housing in the area, but the active redevelopment that you've been doing in the Gateway 7 corridor and the surrounding areas, as well as helping to identify projects that were in the pipeline for approval or kind of out on the horizon, possibly coming to the city. So armed with that information, RPT was able to get the approval of a Florida-based, well-known Florida grocer, which I think you all probably know who that is, to come to the center. One of the kind of key constraints that we have is that they have, this is, because this is not their typical situation, this is one where they were attracted to come here, we did have some physical constraints with respect to the site design, with respect to their operational requirements, which you're seeing with respect to some of the revised parking configurations in the site. So I'll go into those a little bit more, but again, the center was, as Mr. Holmes indicated, it's probably one of the first larger regional shopping centers that was built in the city of Plantation. I've been a resident of Plantation for over 30 years, and it actually predates me. It was constructed back in the late 1960s. It's undergone a lot of changes, one with the widening of State Road 7 and Bard Boulevard. At one point, if you look at an aerial map in 1998, the building that we're seeking to basically reform was actually abutting State Road 7 at the time. And at that time, the owner actually came back and drew back, cut off part of that building to build that parking area that you see that runs along State Road 7. They also reduced the size of where the Broward Wash House is presently located to kind of create the ability and opportunity to develop what's now known as the Wendy's Out Parcel. At that time, they also redeveloped the parking for what you see today. Prior to 1999, it was basically all just surface parking with very little landscaping. The Walgreens was developed. And then the most recent development that you see was the redevelopment of the, I'd call it a retail outbuilding that included the IHOP and the Sherwin-Williams store, which I still miss, for the smaller Chase Branch Bank that you see that was built, again, during the COVID pandemic. All right, so now we turn to the proposed site redevelopment. And what this is intending to show is basically the new building as configured kind of placed over an aerial to show you how it interfaces with the existing parking areas and the existing parking buildings. As I noted before, with the Florida-based grocer, they have a typical parking design of one-way drive aisle conditions. They prefer that to avoid and eliminate conflicts within the drive aisles. They also prefer the 45-degree angled parking. I don't know why, but they do. And so what you see here is accommodating not only for the one-way drive aisles per their specifications, the 45-degree parking, but also the parking count that they are expecting in front of their new store. Let's make sure I'm touching base on everything here. One of the things that you see here, and forgive me again, we are demolishing just, if you can go back to the prior building again, we're demolishing approximately 51,000 square feet, and in its space, developing the new Florida-based grocer. Access to the property, as staff indicated, is not being changed. We have 10 access points. Six of them, I believe, are actually off of Northwest 38th Way, which is the back of the house where the loading and unloading for all of the retailers occurs. One thing that staff pointed, which we're going to go into in a little bit more depth when we get to the landscape and the pervious presentation, is that we are actually increasing the pervious area in this site. As staff noted, this is an older site. It's been impacted by road widening. At the time it was developed, the city did not have a 35% pervious requirement. I believe that was adopted in 2014. So it is a legal conforming condition now, sitting at approximately 16.5%. With what we're showing you in this slide, and I'm going to show you some further enhancements that we're proposing, we are actually increasing the pervious. So we are not enlarging the nonconformity, we're actually making it a little bit better. But as you can probably imagine, redevelopment of these projects, particularly in the Gateway 7, where we can't go vertical, we're one-story buildings, and trying to redevelop it, it's very constrained. Because the amount of area to accommodate the 35% is almost 2.5 acres. To develop that would be eliminating a substantial amount of our parking, and to develop it with pervious pavement would be to the tune of almost $3.8 million. All right, so here is the proposed site plan, colorized site plan, just to kind of give you a little bit different perspective. This is mainly intended to show that all you see there in the lighter green, that is existing tree canopy and landscaping that is remaining, that is not being touched. We're really just touching the area in front of the Florida-based grocer, which will be replaced with additional trees in its place and within the new parking islands. We're able to basically stay equal or actually increase the landscape area because of those larger landscape areas that you see located north and east of the Florida-based grocer, as well as a few other areas along 38th Way. All right, this is just to give you a perspective. The center is broken into really three main in-line buildings, retail A, which is the one where the Florida-based grocer is going to go, retail B, which is where the Babcox DD Discounts is located, and then retail C, which is where the borrowed wash house. I wanted to give this to you as a key, just so you can kind of understand when I start talking about retail A and B, you know what I'm talking about. Again, just some pictures of the existing conditions, just to kind of put into context the proposed elevation changes that we are proposing as part of this application. The picture in the upper left is the inline space facing State Road 7. Lower right is retail B, that centerpiece that has Dollar Tree, Babcock, and DD Discounts. And this is an older picture I pulled out of the archives. This actually shows the existing Save-A-Lot when it was there. To the right of this is the larger USPS location that right now is a retail and distribution facility. So this is actually where they have the trucks in the back. USPS was already planning to leave the center, but as Mr. Holmes indicated, a lot of work and effort went into keeping them in the center in a retail location. And if I can't, I'll actually go back so I can show you where here. USPS is proposed to be located in, I believe it's the third retail location from the north facing 441. So again, something that was very important, I know, to staff and to the neighborhood. And I have to say, we worked actually with our local congressional representative to help facilitate and get that lease taken care of because it requires the federal funding. Other things, while I'm on this slide, in addition to what we're talking about tonight, there's other things that's happening at the site. One is we are adding landscape into other areas of the site, which we'll talk about in a moment. We are updating all of the lighting throughout the site, new light poles and new LED lighting fixtures, which is key. We are updating the building facades. We are mill and resurfacing all of the existing parking areas outside of the Florida-based grocer. You'll see in a moment, we are improving the drainage and water quality and storage capacity associated with the site. We've added pedestrian crosswalks within the center. And in a moment, you'll see the new crosswalk that we're proposing from Northwest 38th Avenue, across 38th Way, and into the center. And then, of course, as I just told you, we've maintained keeping USPS in the center. And at the same time, the pawn shop that is presently there will be vacating by the end of the year. Okay, so now I'm going to get into the exterior elevations. This is of retail A. This is where the Florida-based grocer is going. With the Florida-based grocer, we are proposing kind of a geometric design that carries out their branded colors of green. You see, of course, as you see with all of the redos of the stores, one most recently here in the City of Plantation, the front entrance into the store. Turning to the left, you see we're carrying that geometric design out where we can in the corner elements of the center and in some of the other facades within the other retail spaces. So the top you have is the south elevation of retail A, which is the westernmost building. The middle slide that you see there, that is the elevation facing State Road 7. And then on the bottom is the back elevation or the rear elevation of the Florida-based grocer. And you can see kind of the return on the elevation facing for 41 on the right. One thing I'd like to highlight here, just as a placemark, because this is going to come up in our building parapet waiver. As you can see, the elevation on the rear elevation, which is at the very bottom, kind of undulates a little bit. We are proposing as part of our resubmittal to basically make that a continuous across the top. So basically raising it in those areas where it dips down so it's continuous so it fully screens the RTU. And you'll see that because we have some building perspectives that will show that for you. Here is the exterior elevations of retail B. And there's just one thing I'd like to note. And as Mr. Holmes indicated, we've been working very closely with staff as well as with the CRA. So some of the items that you see here on these elevations, and I'll just quickly go back here, we are carrying out through the rest of the site in part due to a proposed contribution from the CRA. The Florida-based grocer site has a cultured rock kind of feature at the bottom, a knee wall. With a contribution from the CRA, we are proposing to carry that out through the rest of the site. Our roofing material that you see, it's kind of recessed on the inline, the existing inline. That is a barrel tile. We were planning to basically stain and match that, the gray of the Florida-based grocer. With the contribution from the CRA, we are looking to replace that with a standing seam metal roof throughout the center. That will include the Florida-based grocer as well as where you see this tile throughout the rest of the center. The other improvements is to, again, carry that geometric design that you see with the muted grays, again, throughout the rest of the center. One thing you can't see here is the Florida-based grocer will have security cameras. And with a contribution from the CRA, we are also looking to carry those security cameras throughout the rest of the site. So here is the exterior elevations of Retail B. You see that geometric design, the cultured stone, excuse me, on the knee wall, which is from the perspective CRA contribution carried throughout. You do not see the geometric design in certain facades there because that is where the existing signage would be going. But, again, front is south. Left is, there is a driveway that bisects between Retail A and B. That's where Freedness Medical Care, the kidney dialysis is located. You can see that's the elevation for that building. And then, of course, the rear and then the return to the east. And then here I've got a mix-up, and forgive me, but the very top is actually the east elevation of the Florida-based grocer, as you can see from their signature green. And then the bottom four are basically the four elevations for the Broward Wash House. Now we just have some renderings, again, to give you a little bit of a flavor. This is, of course, the view looking straight in at the Florida-based grocer, kind of towards the northwest. Kind of moving a little bit more to the west, now looking to the northeast. And I'm going to turn the corner. Please do not pay attention necessarily to the landscaping because there is actually a huge tree right there in front of the early bird in an island that is remaining. But it's not shown on this rendering because we wanted you to be able to see the geometric design that is being added to the facade. And then, of course, these are the rest of the in-line shops at Phase 441. And you can just visualize that USPS will be a little bit further down there to the left. All right, so now we're going to turn to the landscape plan because I, as a resident city of Plantation, I know how important landscaping is. This image is intended to highlight basically, again, all of the landscaping that is staying, the tree canopy that is staying throughout the site. You see that with the lighter kind of lime green color, again, throughout the site. We are adding a number of trees. I believe 52 trees are being removed. But in total, and I think I have the statistics here, in total we are actually adding an additional 78 trees, which is a combination of trees and palms, which will go into those islands that you see for the Florida-based grocer, as well as some along Broward Boulevard, and obviously what we're adding to the rear of the building. There's a nice landscape area that you see to the east of the Florida-based grocer, and we're optimizing that where we can. Just so you know, as part of the comments from the police department, there was an issue raised with some of our existing landscaping. I don't know if this has a pointer, but between the Broward Wash House and the Walgreens, that the photometrics were not optimal in that area. So working with the police department, I believe we are removing one tree there to provide for the photometrics that they want for that area. But as you can see here, the plant schedule includes a host of different trees that's going to be installed. We know staff has an issue with the laurel-leaved oaks. I believe that was noted in their staff report, and we will, of course, work with them to swap that out for a plant material that they would like. So now I'll just quickly go through the waiver requests. The first waiver request, as staff indicated, was to provide a landscape island every 10 parking spaces. We have four parking runs that you see here highlighted in yellow that do not comply. These runs have 11 spaces. We have one more than the 10. I will note that the current condition right now, the parking, they only have terminal islands. The parking runs are about 13, I think, spaces long and do not comply with this requirement right now. This second waiver request, which I think is probably the most significant of all of them, in my opinion, and from what I understand from staff, and this is the elimination of those center medians, the 10-foot median. I believe we have three PERT to meet code that we are eliminating. We certainly understand staff's concern. Unfortunately, in order to meet the design requirements as approved by the Florida-based grocer for the one-way drive-outs, the 45-degree parking, and the parking numbers that you see, this is a request that has been necessitated. However, although we're losing the landscaping in the front of the Florida-based grocer, we, again, have not lost that in the overall center because we are relocating it to the north and the east of the Florida-based grocer and actually increasing the overall landscaping by about 3,600 square feet. The next waiver was the LPZ zone. As you can see here, we are providing for it on the west as well as the north and in the rear and along the east facade of the building. It is just the south facade of the building, which I believe does not have it for the continuing, but for the Florida-based grocer that necessitates an elimination, again, based upon their design standards for this site. I would like to highlight the Florida-based grocer, as you know, is kind of internal to the site. It has the Walgreens in front of it before you see Broward Boulevard. So I think it is important to note that we are providing the LPZ currently for the frontage that faces 441. Then the next two requests are, again, for the perimeter landscape buffers and the trees, particularly adjacent to Broward Boulevard. And as I noted earlier, this is a very old site. Our buffers were, in part, impacted by road widenings, but in this case, by the fact that in order to even accommodate that additional parking that we added when we pulled that building back, we were limited with a certain perimeter buffer in order to accommodate that parking. In order to meet this requirement, we would basically have to eliminate all of the parking along our perimeter, that whole run, in order to be able to meet this requirement, which is a significant amount of parking loss. And I'll talk a little bit about the parking, because I know this is something staff had mentioned, that we do appear to have a surplus of 35 spaces. We have a surplus in large part because we are able to take advantage of waivers that they have in the Gateway 7 corridor to allow redevelopment. And if you're an owner of a shopping center, parking is key. It is key in the way the center is laid out. And I'll just quickly just shift back here. Our parking is not very efficient. So losing parking just makes that worse. So if you can visualize if you're a retailer over on the west side, your parking is basically that parking that runs along 441. You've then got the retailers on the south end and the Florida-based grocer, obviously with the parking in front. But then you turn to Babcock, DeeDee's Discounts, Dollar Store, Walgreens, and the Broad Wash House, kind of all share that parking that you see east of the Chase and, to a certain extent, the Florida-based grocer parking lot. So when you eliminate four rows of parking, it does significantly impact the operational aspects of the shopping center. All right, I'll quick flash forward again. Then we'll turn to waiver request 7. And this is from the city's new EV-capable and EV-ready parking spaces. We did ask for a waiver of this. However, since the staff report came out, we were able to look at the plans. And we are committing to build 10 EV-ready spaces at the center, which will basically run along 441 at the north end of the project. So when I get to a further slide, I'll point those out for you all. And then the next one is the screening, required screening for the rooftop equipment, this waiver. And I think the best way for me to explain this waiver and our purpose for our request is to really show you some drawings so you kind of understand what we're facing. To the right, you see, this is the roof plan for the Florida-based grocer. The RTUs are basically the, I guess, refrigeration, air conditioning units that are on the roof of the building. The really one issue is RTU4, the larger rectangular unit that you see in the center of the building. That unit actually goes above the parapet by a few feet. However, because it's in the center of the building, and you're going to see in a few moments through the different perspectives that we have, and you can see starting at 1, and I'm going to go clockwise. 1 is at 6 o'clock. I'm going to show you the perspectives to show that from the property line, you can't see the RTUs. We're asking for a waiver because in order to raise the parapet to actually be at the same height of that RTU, we would have a parapet that's almost 12 feet tall, which would require bracing, and which is something that would not meet the Florida-based grocer's requirements because they do not want to have a parapet that is that tall braced to their roof. So here I'm just going to start again, visualize 6, 7, 12, 1, and 3 o'clock. At the top, this is perspective 1, so this is down by the Chase Walgreens. And you can kind of see if you look over there to the, just to the left of the smaller of the two tower features, you can see shadowed in kind of behind the parapet where that RTU is. And the reason it's not visible is because it sits in the center of the building. So the distance away from the edge of the building is what helps to hide it a little bit more. So as you can see, the RTU is not visible. I believe we are proposing to raise the parapet just slightly here to assure that. So in our resubmittal with the city council, staff will see that. Perspective number 2, this is at, I believe, 7 o'clock. Again, you see the kind of shadowed in RTU there, again, behind the parapet. This is, again, 3, if I recall correctly. This was at 12 o'clock. And, again, you see the same thing, the shadowed RTU. And then here you see 4. I think that was at 1 o'clock, the same thing. And then finally, at 3 o'clock, perspective 5. Here at the middle one, perspective 4, this is where I noted earlier that rear elevation, where we were raising that parapet to make it continuous. And that's what I think really makes it so that you don't see the RTU at the end of the day. All right, I'm going to turn real quickly to the variance from Section 9-29D. This is for the pervious. Again, I highlight this is an older center. It was developed before the city adopted its pervious requirement of 35%. What you see here in the chart, this is as it stands now with the plans that are before you. We are sitting at 16.5%. That is the overall center. And with the improvements that we're proposing as part of the site plan now, we're proposing to increase it slightly by 0.6%. That equates to about 6,000 additional square feet of landscape area. Now, as staff noted, there's a number of things that we're doing to actually improve drainage, and I'm going to go through those in a moment. There we go. This is a drawing I think staff showed you as well. This just shows you in, like, the darker pink. This is the pervious areas that are remaining. The green shows the new pervious areas we're adding. And you can see even if you look at the area in front of the Florida-based grocer, the medians obviously are being eliminated, but in some respects our terminal islands are actually bigger than what was there previously. This is something that we are proposing to further help the pervious issue. Because of the size of the site, even adding pervious pavement to this area, it moves the needle about 2%. So adding pervious pavement in the areas where you see the green will change our net increase to 2.25% or 18.72%. Here, because we know landscaping and pocket parks and things of that are important to staff, I mentioned to Mr. Alpert before the meeting that the upper, and I don't know, is there a thing on here? Is it? Ah, got it. Okay. In the, let's see if I can do this right. Okay, in this upper right-hand corner right here, that, like, kind of square block of parking, that is parking that we can lose and not negatively affect any of our lease commitments. So if staff prefers that that be landscaping with additional trees, that is something we can accommodate. It doesn't change our pervious numbers at all, because landscaping and pervious pavement, as I understand, equate to the same thing. So that is something that we are offering as an additional condition and a modification to the plans that we're proposing to add that pervious pavement or a combination of that pervious pavement with landscaping in the upper northwest corner of the center. I mentioned the EV capable spaces. Those are going to be proposed to be down here along State Road 7 here. And we are proposing 10 EV capable spaces be installed. The next thing that we're doing is the additional stormwater improvements. Under the Florida-based grocer parking lot, we are proposing, let me just make sure I get the right numbers here, we are proposing a total of 867 linear feet of exfiltration trench under that parking lot to provide for additional water quality, water storage, and water capacity, which will provide the equivalent of 1.21 acres per feet or 48,787 cubic feet of storage. The total cost of this is approximately $173,000, which we feel does mitigate the pervious request because it does add a significant amount of storage. Additionally, we will be, as I said, cleaning and fixing the storm drains throughout the rest of the center, ensuring that the drainage system operates at max capacity. And I am almost done. One of the other things that we are proposing, because we know this was important to staff, and particularly to the CRA, was to provide a pedestrian connection from the residents that live to the northwest. What you can't see here is just off to the northeast is northwest 38th Avenue. And we are proposing a, you can see here, sorry, just highlight it here, we are proposing a crosswalk, a striped crosswalk across northwest 38th Way into the existing sidewalk, which hopefully I can highlight it. You can kind of see it here with this hatched line. There's an existing sidewalk that kind of undulates along northwest 38th Way and connecting into the sidewalk into the center. This proposed pedestrian access into the center will reduce the pervious area nominally. I believe it's 393 square feet, which reduces the pervious by .06. So the total pervious we'd be providing on the site with the pervious pavement is 18.66% overall. Traffic, and we do have our traffic engineer here again. Traffic is mitigated by and large because we're actually reducing the overall size of the center by almost 23,000 feet. With the development, all of the major roads serving the center will continue to operate at LOSD or better through the development's build-out year of 2025. Again, we're not modifying any of the access connections into the shopping center. The provision of parking is obviously going to be modified depending upon what staff decides with respect to the northwest corner because we will lose some parking there. A pedestrian traffic signal was recently constructed at the northwest corner with a special emphasis crosswalk already at State Road 7441 and northwest 3rd Street. And, of course, we are proposing to install the new pedestrian crosswalk across North 30th 8th Avenue. And FDOT has issued an approval letter at this point for this matter. The one last thing I just want to talk about, and that is the conditional use. I know staff does a really good job of outlining not only our responses to the various criteria, but also their response and concurrence for many items. We know that they would much prefer that we have a different parking design for in front of the Florida-based grocer. I think I've explained to you our constraints in that effort. The only other item that they mentioned in connection with the conditional use was the pedestrian connectivity into the center from northwest 38th way, which, as you see, we are providing. We did host a community meeting back on April 4th, 2023. We had one person attend. They were favorable to the application. We also were before the CRA board. I believe it was on February 22nd. And they also favorably recommended the development. So with that, I appreciate your time, your patience for my very long presentation. I stand ready to answer any questions that you may have. Members of our project team or ownership are ready to answer any questions that you may have. And I just ask respectfully for your favorable recommendation and approval. Thank you. Thank you. Before I begin, I have a point of order for you, which is we have two technically new members who have yet to be sworn in to this particular council. Paul was previously, sorry, totally forgot your name. Me? Matt? Matt McIntosh. Okay. So Matthew is new to actually sitting on here. Do we have to swear them in before we begin anything here? They haven't been sworn in before as far as you know? Okay. Are they officially on the board? Okay. Okay. All right. So we do need to swear you gentlemen in. Do you have time to get the oath? Okay. That would be. Oh, okay. Got you. Yes. So, gentlemen, I just need you to repeat after me and state your name. So I. Aye. Do solemnly swear or affirm. Do solemnly swear and affirm. That I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of the state of Florida and Broward County. That I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of Broward County. That I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of Broward County. Okay. We'll go slower. Okay. That I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of the state of Florida. that I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of Florida and Broward County and have all the qualifications as required by the Charter for the office or position upon which I am about to enter. That I will support the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the State of Florida and laws and ordinances of the City of Plantation that I will faithfully perform the duties of the office upon which I am now about to enter. So help me God. So help me God. Thank you. Thank you. That's it. It's over. That's it. He's good. All right. I just wanted to get that one done so that if any questions came, it was all above board. So to that, does anybody from the dais have any questions, comments for either staff or the office? I have just one question. It's for the city. This isn't so much in relation to this, but this has happened before. Why haven't the people in Lauderdale, in Lauderdale Lakes, I guess? Lauderdale Hill. Lauderdale Hill. Why weren't they notified? They weren't notified. Because according to this map, the notification line ends on the property line of this development. Okay. Yeah. Well, we kind of show it just for, because it's for the city of Plantation. We did, however, do outreach with the city of Lauderdale. We even met with one of their council members. There were members of the city of Lauderdale, as the applicant indicated, that even attended the public meeting that was held. So they have, and in fact, they were some of the ones that gave us the input, most of the input with regard to trying to retain the post office. Because those came from Lauderdale residents. Okay. Well, I'd just like to recommend in the future, when you draw up these pictures, these pictures of the boundaries, to include the full boundaries. Yeah. Part of that, too, with the GIS, and I'll see if we have that, is that we don't, just our boundary, it's just our boundary of the city. Yeah. So I don't even know if we have an area that even covers that. So I will ask our GIS folks if that's possible. Yeah, so just a couple of comments here. First off, I thought the presentation was excellent and very informative, very well done. I am, as you may know, had been with the Florida Department of Transportation and Traffic Engineering, so my focus on this really was the Traffic Impact Study, which also was, I think, was excellent. In my tenure with the DOT, we worked with, I believe, this Florida-based grocer many times on many projects, and the parking standards that they used, the parking designs that they used, are really designed to work, because if it doesn't work, it's not a good design. It's good for them. It's good for the center. I have no issues with that. I will say that the mid-block pedestrian crossing on 38th or 39th Way I think is an excellent idea, and that sidewalk connection in particular into the site itself from that roadway I think is really key, and so I think that's an excellent thing. So I have no issues with this. Thank you. Thank you. So I also am pretty familiar with this Florida-based grocer, and they just did a major, major renovation in the city with angled parking with islands that would pretty much work here with eliminating a few spaces. So I happen to agree with the city that they should re-look at the parking. If it's their standard, I don't know why it worked just a few miles away, and also in that same location, they did provide an LPZ in front of the store, so I don't really know why that can't work here either. So, you know, the standards are, I guess, to fit a specific site, but I would certainly, again, kind of urge them to go back and look at those two areas at the one that was recently done, which happens to be off Cleary. Thank you. Thank you. I would like to know about the cart return places that they have. I've noticed that there's none in there that you're showing. There are three. And there are three? Yes. Three for the entire store? Four. Well, technically. Oh, okay. There's four. There's four. Okay. And, I mean, I also used to shop at the Florida-based grocery store in Cleary, and when they enlarged it, I went to a different store. I've noticed in that parking lot when you drive in that within two days after it opening that you could tell people were already running over the cement side as they're making the turn because they couldn't make the turn. I also, there's a Walgreens close to my home, and because it's in a specific center where there's other businesses, they have signs that they put up saying parking only for Walgreens. Have you thought that maybe they would do that also by your proposed store, you know, specifically for Walgreens because is it a 24-hour Walgreens? I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I know they're the only one that I know in the area is on Sunrise and University, but I was just wondering about that. Are they where the Broward pre-mill planned? That would be introducing like light rail and bus rapid transit because that would reduce the requirement for like the amount of cars like over time. Yeah, we did indicate that to them in one of our later meetings where we talked about the, you know, the primo plan. And so, I mean, many people are concerned about the timing of that and when that will take place, but you're correct as we, if we were able to implement that, then it would, of course, improve transit and reduce the reliance on automobile travel. Because I think if we don't, like, so that's already been planned. I know it's far off in the future, but if we continue to like not take into account that this is where we want to go, we're not going to get there. And I think reducing the shade requirements will like impact the success of any public transit or pedestrians. You can include a walkway there, but if there's no shade, people aren't going to walk there. They're going to drive there. And if you include all that parking, then that's just another incentive for them to drive. And now it doesn't look like it's like the proposals would be an actual slight improvement. I appreciate that. And there was some adjustment for the flooding, but there wasn't anything about the heat island effect with having all that asphalt there. The shade trees aren't just there for like flood mitigation. They're also there for the shade. And that's not just like a preference. Right. Very good point. And we did discuss that as part of the DRC. I have one other question. For the new store in Cleary, the people that live behind there, they had to make an alteration because the trucks were coming at 3, 4 in the morning. And I saw that you were having trucks. You have a tunnel. Is that what you called it to have the delivery trucks go behind the store? Yeah. So when it's behind the store, how close is it to a residential area? The well, I think this is the well right here, right? So I don't know. Offhand, we can try to measure that distance. I don't know if you're able to identify. I mean, it's across the street. Yeah. Yeah. So if I lived behind there, I wouldn't hear them at 3 in the morning? I just want to, Jane Alota once again for the applicant. As you can see here, let me see, the rear well, which does have, I believe, a concrete wall, which helps to mitigate for the noise when they're actually parked in the well, you know, offloading. I just want to highlight, and I'm just going to go back, if you don't mind, here. We've actually reduced the, I mean, increased the distance from, because right now, there was, again, the whole, I mean, this whole area right here is, I believe, the fenced enclosure for the USPS, which is going to be removed. Obviously, this whole back part of the building is being removed and will be open space with the rear well kind of down around here. So the existing loading dock for the Save-A-Lot is actually much closer to the residential homes. We're actually moving it further away and enclosing it with the concrete rear wall kind of that it will park within. Okay, thank you. Good evening. For the record, Inderley Brown, Environmental Landscape Division. In regards to the proposed increased landscape area to the rear of the proposed development in the parking area that they said is a surplus. In lieu of that, staff has reviewed the parking area and the omission of parking islands, the medians that they have not proposed. We can discuss having those areas looked at again as the drive aisles can be reduced. So I think that's something that can be researched further for the city council submitter if you guys approve. Thank you. So first, great to staff for recognizing the food desert and working with partners to mitigate that. Also want to applaud working with our neighbors in the city of Waterhill. Classic planning where you put something you don't want on the edge of your city and let your neighbors deal with it. So I really appreciate you guys went the other way and work with everyone. On the connectivity, and once again, it's a great idea, connecting to the neighborhood and making more walkable. I do want to push because it's like we're right there like a solid B plus. I want to make it an A. And has the Florida-based grocer considered doing some sort of covered bike parking to really make this more multimodal? I understand that we do have bike parking in the front of the store where, as you know, and if I can go back to the... There's some sort of awning on top. Yeah, and just one thing, and I apologize, I was trying to cover probably too much here, but here's the Florida-based grocer. As you can see, this is a covered awning right in here. What you can't see here is there is a decorative, it's a black metal awning that will actually connect this covered canopy to the existing canopy over here. This is actually a new canopy. This is where the 2,700-square-foot liquor store will be going. So the bike rack will be under cover of Retail A. Fantastic. So you do get that A plus. Thank you. Thank you. Other questions I have. You said EV-ready? So that means it'll be wired, but you're not going to have a charger in place? Right. Okay. Or the conduit. No, it won't be wired. Let me... Yeah, the conduit would sort of be in place so that at the time that you're ready to put it in, you can just wire it through the conduit and put in the... It'll be stubbed out and ready. Right, right, right. Trying to prevent the requirement in the future that as, you know, electrical vehicles, you know, kind of come about more. We start, you know, we don't have to rip up the parking to try to provide that amenity. It's good, great foresight. So then I have a question on Northwest. So for Northwest 38, is that where trucks will be going to get in and out? And is the city of Lauderhill okay with that? Because it's a local road, I presume? Yeah, it's a local road. Owned by Plantation or Lauderhill? Lauderhill. It's Plantation. Oh, it is? And, yeah, and that's where trucks kind of come in. That road is utilized now. But is 38 owned by the city of Plantation or Lauderhill? Yeah. Okay. So any additional wear and tear due to truck traffic would be borne by the city of Plantation? Yes, we would be responsible for maintenance of that roadway. All right. Okay. That was my only question. Yeah, I just wanted to know that. Sorry. My name is Christian Morales with Bowman Consulting, civil engineer for the project. I did want to note, and it should be included as part of the package that was provided with the plans we provided. We provided truck routes for the site, specifically for the Florida-based brochure. And there's a couple of options to enter the site. There's access to the site from State Road 7. So, for example, in this landscape plan, you can see the truck coming in through State Road 7 along the frontage and then accessing the back of house, essentially, where the truck wheel is. I did want to mention, like Jana mentioned, that the truck fill is recessed, so it is not at surface level. It will be like, it's recessing to the ground. Yes. Thank you. Yeah, so there are a couple of accesses along State Road 7 that will be available for trucks to come in off of the main roadways, as you guys know, both Broward Boulevard and State Road 7 around major thoroughfares. So the truck turn analysis shows that the trucks can come in through the front and then leave along the back, depending on what the direction from the traffic is. But it is an existing condition. There is... Oops. I was like, oh, did I do something? Yeah. So you can see a couple of the ingress and egress truck wrap plans. But again, like the existing back of house is all along Northwest 38th Way. Like Jana mentioned, we are pulling back that extent of the building for retail A quite further in into like about halfway along the retail. So the location of where the truck stage for the Florida Bay Scroach will be quite separated from the neighborhoods from the adjacent city of Lauderhill. Fantastic. And just stay up here. My last question is for you too. So we're talking about perimble land, diagonal parking. I understand why it works. That's fine. I do have a concern about that two-way in front of the store. Those areas tend to be, have a lot of conflict points between pedestrians with carts, vehicles, etc. It's a good opportunity to maybe put some permeable pavement that has a distinctive look that's different from the rest to have a visual cue to those cars to slow down. So we do have, if you can see in particular... I see the three crosswalks. I'm talking about the whole area. Yeah, just because we all know that no one's going to follow... Because look, you don't have a place for people to walk in between spots in between the parking. So they're going to have to walk down the drive aisles. And those three crosshatches only apply to three drive aisles maybe. So if you made that whole area, once again, so permeable, so you increase your permeable area and you can do a different design, it would be more of a visual cue to slow down that this is a place where... And just to clarify, I think the three crosswalks that you see, those are predominantly marking because they are accessing the ADA spaces that you see. That is an ADA requirement to show that. But I see your point. I think it's very common in front of public... Florida-based grocery... It's a very common public behavior. I'm sorry. It's a public behavior. That's correct. I'm tired. That there's like a clear demarcation so that it's for the safe pedestrian ingress and egress, clearly. So we can certainly look at that to see if that's an area that's appropriate. I will tell you my understanding of pervious pavement is not only is it extraordinarily expensive at $35 a square foot installed, it also requires a great deal of maintenance. And in front of the store is going to be one of the more heavily trafficked areas. But again, having something, whether it's a different design, a different material, something that demarks that area, I think is a very good point. And even if it's not the permeable pavement... Understood. ...stamped concrete, there's a lot of low-maintenance, high-effect... Understood. Appreciate that very much. And actually, one of the things that we were discussing that we understand that helps to address the heat island effect that we were seeing where it might be deployed is in lieu of certain areas, we could potentially explore concrete. This is not a pervious, but it is something that I think addresses heat island better than asphalt does. So whether that's an area or an area in the back of the house, but that's something that we can certainly explore. And again, as I was taking notes, and if you mind, I'm going to just digress just to answer a few questions I know that's been asked. You know, we have been endeavoring to work with staff to address what we know are their concerns regarding the parking area in front of the Florida-based grocer. And we will continue to try to prod them to do the right thing. Heretofore, they have stood firm because this is not a center where they own the parcel underneath it. This is not a center where they already have an existing store, where they are redeveloping it with a larger store such as the Knob Hill. This is a store where we worked for years to attract them to the center. And it unfortunately comes with certain strings attached to it. But we will continue as we have throughout the process of going back and knocking on their door. I am glad that we were able to accommodate some changes in the remainder of the site. For example, hopefully creating some sort of like a pocket part or that kind of island landscaping that they were looking for in the staff report up at the northwest corner keeping site triangles and line of sites obviously in mind. The Walgreens board member Gelfand, that is a 24-hour Walgreens. The entrance to the center, we don't believe, I don't believe heretofore we've really had to do, oh my gosh, I'm sorry, I don't have my presentation. The entrance to the Walgreens is actually at the southeast corner of the building fronting onto Broward Boulevard. So the parking, thank you, Dan, I appreciate that. Most people park in this area, I know that's where I've parked because I actually live just further down on Broward Boulevard. The north part, as you know, that is I believe the drive-thru, I think you enter here, maybe drive-thru's over here, I forget where it's located. So we don't believe that there's going to be a lot of conflict of the parking with Walgreens with the Florida-based grocer, but clearly this parking area here is somewhat constrained with these users over here, certainly, which is why we were reluctant to basically eliminate all of this landscaping to be able to accommodate the perimeter buffers because that is unfortunately an existing condition and it's needed to remain because of the parking that's required there. Real quickly, I think, just a quick look through the EV-ready, again, yes, those are, it's the conduit will be placed so that whoever the provider ultimately is can just hopefully pull and go. One thing we've learned is that the EV kiosk providers, they vary greatly in their specifications, which is why you don't necessarily provide kind of the guts of it. You provide the infrastructure for them to pull their wires through, but we are actively, you know this is an important thing, this is the wave of the future, right? You're seeing more and more electric vehicles on the road and so we are actively working to attract someone to the center to basically build those kiosks to serve the center going forward. Just so you know, with respect to the outreach for Lauder Hill, I know Glendon Hall, the CRA director, has had numerous conversations. I believe it's Commissioner Lawrence. I personally am setting up a meeting with him prior to our council meeting to talk further with him about the presentation so be assured that we are reaching out to the city of Lauder Hill and I think that, I think I've addressed the few things that is mentioned. If there's anything else I can answer while I'm up here, please let me know. I just have one other question. Home, sir. Go ahead. Yeah, just a quick question and again, I realize this is just a, you know, kind of a schematic layout, but the first row of parking next to State Road 7 there. Right here. So if I'm seeing that correctly, you're going to come in from the south and turn left and go along there and park, right? The, well, it's a one-way drive so if you're coming, if you're entering on this entrance, you can enter that row and go north. If you're coming in this northern entrance, which would be just immediately south of Retail A, you cannot go south because it's a one-way condition. The next, the first row that you could turn into would be the second parking row. Okay, so going north out of there to turn left to go out to State Road 7, you realize what's going to happen there, right? I believe you're concerned with like queuing that people are waiting for. And you're going to block the entrance coming off of State Road 7, which is then going to... We can certainly include signage. That's something along the lines of like do not block the intersection along those lines. Right, turn only maybe? I mean, if you let them turn left, it's going to happen every day. It is right out only. Oh yeah, it's a right in, right out, out of the center, yes. But traffic can turn northbound right into the center. Out of the aisle. He's, I believe he's... So people are going to be stopped at State Road 7. Somebody's going to be trying to turn left out of that aisle and they're going to pull out and block the east. Yeah, so basically somebody going north, his concern is somebody's going to stop here wanting to go basically right to go north on State Road 7. actually pull out into the lane. And they're going to, if they pull out because they can't get out, a car coming in is going to be held because the car's blocking. That's your concern. Yes. So I'm sure that there's something we can do with signage to deter that movement. And we're certainly happy to offer up to have Christian work with, you know, Samara or someone else in the city to determine what would be most appropriate there because certainly we do not want to have anything that would impede incoming traffic from State Road 7 into the center. I would hope because I know if I did that, I would get a heart like this and I would never do it again. It's like stopping on a railroad track, right? Yeah. Yeah, so just to continue this, so you noted earlier that you'd gotten an approval letter from the Department of Transportation. Yes. And as part of that approval, did they look at the retaining of the existing driveway connections and the impact of what was just noted here? This is a throat depth issue, I guess. Yes, it is. It is a throat depth issue and it is something that we discussed at the time of the pre-approval letter with the district. What they wanted to make sure is that we did not increase, because the existing throat depth is what it is right now. They just wanted to make sure that as part of our proposed redevelopment and reconfiguration of the parking lot, we kept the minimum existing throat depth that they're existing. So instead of, you know, pushing parking closer to the right of way, we just kind of kept it at the existing location. And they were favorable to the idea that we were converting at least the parking to one way as opposed to two so you don't have traffic going in both directions. Thank you. I believe Board Member Gelfin had a question. I was just going to ask, I mean, I stop at stop signs. A lot of people don't. My cohort told me they won't ticket them that I know, but would stop signs be a deterrent to people when they're going into the store not being, or coming out of the store not being run over by somebody driving through them? Just so I understand what you're suggesting. You're suggesting like there be a stop sign like here to stop people going east and maybe like somewhere here. Well, would they have stop signs at the end of every aisle? There will, yes. They do. So, and I'm talking about so if you're going this way and the aisles are going this way, wouldn't you have a stop sign here and here for one going this way and this way? I think the idea, and I could have Mr. Morales correct me, is that the traffic in the drive aisle has the right-of-way, the east-west right-of-way. The east-west drive aisles have the right-of-way with the exception of when they're in front of the Florida-based grocer and are stopping for pedestrian traffic. And then the traffic in the drive aisles going north and south in the Florida-based grocer parking lot, they have a stopped condition at either end. Thank you. And I can add a little bit. I think the general idea is to have the east-west traffic have the right-of-way so that we don't create like a stacking concern. So you don't have cars kind of stopping there and backing out onto the right-of-way. Okay. He Uber eats. I think they can figure this one out. You got engineers and practical people who drive cars working on this one. Microphone. What would happen if we took those drive aisles and reversed the directions? The same thing on the south side. Yeah, but now you wouldn't have cars going up that drive aisle to make a left. They'd have to go over one lane, one aisle. In other words, come in, in other words, the left-most aisle where you can make a left onto State Road 7, reverse the direction of all the remaining aisles. But then you would have the same condition on the driveway that's just in the south and that's closer to the intersection. No, because you'd be turning right out of there and not blocking the lane. You'd be turning right here? I see what you're saying because then you'd be turning right so you're not blocking the incoming traffic at that point. I mean, it's certainly something we could explore to see if that's something that, again, the Florida-based because this particular plan is what they have approved but it's certainly something we could explore because I see what you're saying. Again, I don't know where it impacts with respect to in front with the ADA. That's where I guess I just don't like that point but I see your point. I see your point. All right, cool. My turn. For the drainage additions that you're making, they're not cisterns. They're the equivalent of leach field, correct? Correct. They're like a French rain so they're perforated pipe surrounded with ballast rock. Is the drainage off the roof tied into the storm sewer system? It is, yeah. Any way to tie it into that leach field considering the stuff coming off of the roof is probably going to be cleaner than what's coming off of it? It's all interconnected and there's a control structure that controls discharge prior to anything going off-site to ensure that water quality is taken care of including the exfiltration trench. That's, yeah. Perfect. As far as the location of the EV spots, you said they're going to be on the northwest corner. Is that correct? Like basically being at the top of the building? Right. So if you can visualize, this area is potentially going to become landscape so it's going to be 10 spaces somewhere down in here. Yeah. Is that the most efficient use for trying to encourage people to use it? In other words, if they're shifted to the southern part of that particular parking aisle, you know, people don't want to be inconvenienced as far as where they're actually parking and then walking, you would assume somebody driving an electric car would want to walk a little bit more but that's a separate issue. Moving on to the southern part of that particular drive line, is that an option or no? It's something we can explore. I will tell you the reason they were located at the north end there is because that's the area where we're proposing to rip out the pavement already to mitigate the costs of putting in the underground conduit. Yeah. And understand that at the end of the day as we're continuing to work with these EV providers, you know, our intent is to have EV more distributed throughout the site because there's a greater requirement than the 10 spaces. But this is at least our first start. For that question, since you are resurfacing pretty much everything south of the Florida-based grocer, makes good subs, is there... They do. I consider it to be a marginal cost to lay conduit for some of those drive aisles to solve that problem for future concerns. If your issue is actually to someday make it EV capable, we're talking about simply laying conduit along those drive lines, even if they're never used, it's got to be a minimal cost considering you're already ripping up the parking lot. As I understand it, the Florida-based grocer has a hard stop right now on EV within their parking area for whatever reason. I'm turning to the leasing experts over there. I see your point. With respect to the rest of the center, where we're milling and resurfacing, we're not ripping it up. We're just milling and resurfacing, which is, again, why we're proposing it up there to the northwest. But again, just like with the other items, we'll continue to see how we can push the envelope with them. That's one of the items I'm happy to have raised. The last one. This is friendly, actually. You said 50-some-odd trees are being removed right now. Is that correct? I have the statistics. Oh, we do like to do Mr. Delaney. Sorry. You go ahead. And those are the ones that are already in the parking aisles and other places. Based on the pictures, those trees have some pretty hefty calipers. And don't we have it in our code? If you pull a tree of a certain caliper, it has to actually be relocated. Are those trees being relocated? Mitigated or replaced on-site or monetarily? The tree removal permit would be the subsequent process that they probably are going to monetarily mitigate if they don't propose equivalent DBH. So what I was mentioning earlier, if they reduce the width of the drive aisles, they'll be able to propose new parking dividers with more vegetation in those new parking dividers. So right now, the one-ways are excessive so they can be reduced to accomplish that mitigation that you're speaking. I'm going to assume that the Florida-based grocery does not want to do that because they don't seem to be very flexible. So the question I have is really with regards to implementing our code on preserving those trees because, I mean, they look like 13-inch caliper trees east. Yeah, I did object to the waivers. So can we get... I'm assuming they're going to cut them down and grind them. My question is, do we have any place in the city where we could use those trees? Because those are some pretty hefty trees. They wouldn't be... I don't think they're candidates for relocation. I think they can remain... Okay. Yeah. All right. That's all I have. Anybody else from the day? Anybody from the audience wish to speak on this item? Name and address, please. Yes. Sarah Clark, 10451 West Broward Boulevard. Yeah, I think it's great that we're bringing a grocery into a food desert. There's bike parking. I'm curious how much bike parking do we know? The code doesn't have like a specific requirement for a number of bike parking spaces, but we're willing to work with staff, you know, to get like an action. But we are proposing at the front of the store. Currently, we're showing six bike parking spaces. Okay, cool. That's good to know. Yeah, I mean, if we are assuming that more parking means more business, then bike parking is a good way to go. Why not turn a few of those car spaces into bike parking? You can fit a lot more bikes in one parking stall than cars. Just out of curiosity, if you had your way, how many spaces, how many bike racks would you want? That's a good question. I would say just more than you typically see. You typically only see one that you can, you know, like six. But that doesn't really communicate to people who ride bikes that like this is a bike-friendly environment. Or it's also not going to communicate to anyone who wouldn't otherwise ride a bike that like, hey, you can ride a bike here. It's not going to get people thinking like that. So make it prominent. Make it look like this is a bike-friendly environment is what I'm going for here. Does that make sense? I just wanted to add it in your head, like for a shopping center this size, how many you would want. Oh, I don't know. I mean, parking minimums in any case. I mean, parking requirements are totally arbitrary. Oh, absolutely. I just mean number of bike racks like at this point. I don't know. I mean, probably the more the better, but maybe not up to a certain extent. Does anyone have any input on that? I don't have a particular number in mind. How about a different question? Is there going to be enough space to add to what you've planned? In addition to the six that we're providing in front of the Florida-based grocer, we can certainly look to see if it can be expanded there, but I think more to your point is to explore whether or not there's opportunities in retail B, for example, to add a bike rack there as well and possibly maybe around the side facing 441. It's all a matter of accommodation knowing the width of the existing sidewalks, ADA requirements, and things like that, but again, it's a very good point and we're happy to explore because that's a very easy thing to do. If you could, thank you. I'm sorry. Didn't mean to interrupt. Continue. Oh, no. That's good. That's good. That's good because, yeah, there's a lot more car parking spaces than bike parking spaces, but bikes are a lot more space efficient. So, yeah, and to Mr. McIntosh's point, if we are headed in the direction of being more transit and pedestrian friendly, then we kind of need to start planning for that now. I don't think that taking out trees to increase space for parking is the way to do that. I know that there's going to be a lot of trees that are transplanted throughout the area, but that doesn't really change the fact that we're kind of creating a little bit of a desert there, which is not very walk friendly. I don't personally find those diagonal parking lots to be very pleasant to navigate and they're also a less effective use of space. So that's another thing to consider. But, yeah, my main thought around this is like we need to be planning. If we're headed towards more transit friendly, more walk friendly infrastructure, we need to start planning for that now by maybe not focusing so much on car parking that we're taking out trees. I do love that there is going to be a pedestrian walkway from that residential neighborhood. This is a huge opportunity to be focusing on modes other than cars because there's so many residences right there that can get there without a car. So I think this is a great opportunity to capitalize on that. I see that pedestrian walkway being addressed as kind of almost an afterthought. I think it should be a main event. And that's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you. One question did just pop into my head right now. Do we know where bus stops are on the main arterials for this spot? I'm hoping I can remember the one on Broward. I believe there is one on Broward. I want to say over here. It is a stop. I believe there is a bench. There is an actual pavilion right here. You can actually see I think a bus stop there on 441. Right. So it's the brick plantation pavilion that you see for the bus stops. Got it. For the crosswalk that you were going to make, I assume there are going to be the appropriate markings for that. Are we going to remark the rest of the parking lots so that the pedestrian access is clearly delineated into the new structures? Yeah. And I believe on our presentation we show the pedestrian crosswalk, crosswalks there to 441 and also there is a crosswalk obviously down onto Broward Boulevard. I believe there is one through the chase as well as one over near the bus stop on Broward Boulevard and then of course the new pedestrian crosswalk that we are adding across Northwest 38th Way. So building C to building B to building A. Correct. And then again we had an exhibit and forgive me I think I am trying to turn to my presentation real quick that showed you know basically the pedestrian connectivity that runs along the front of Retail A from the north all the way down the west side of that building in front of the Florida-based grocer connecting over to the building where Friesen is this of course you have the pedestrian access that's going to come in from 38th Way then again and this is all covered by the way within Retail A, B and even C with covered canopies or the metal awning that's being incorporated as part of the Florida-based grocer and so again the connectivity continues on and goes around and actually continues over even around the Wendy's you can see it there at the sidewalk but we have and I know I don't want to have to go back to my presentation but we do show the various ADA connections and what not to the right of way yeah I'm sorry and maybe Google Maps is out of date but the bus stop is just a pull are you talking about on Broad Boulevard well there's no bus stops on State Road 7 no there absolutely is there absolutely is it is it is right again you can see the bus stop there and you can see the pavilion if I don't know if we haven't there's an aerial on here so I just heard four people say it in unison so I'll address the course now it's there's definitely my aerial I know it shows it better but you can see the bus and you can kind of see the roof line of the bus stop you can kind of see it over here I'll highlight it for you you can see the the roof right there the roof structure right there okay so it's on the north end of the building I see it now so on the Broward Boulevard side there's the pedestrian connectivity from the bus stop there's almost none it leads right to the Wendy's and there's nothing from the Wendy's there is again Chris I might need your help do you have mine I'm pretty sure we're showing the connectivity either it's existing or proposed from the Broad Wash House to State Road 7 let me see if I can quick get that for you here hold on thank you Dan for that let me go back here sorry it's not going as fast for me let's see here where alright I believe and Christian correct me if I am wrong that we there is one that is here you can maybe highlight it it should be it should be also part of the PNC package there's a connection there's a crosswalk there and it goes across I'll make sure that's a big question and come to you here one comment that this came to mind was this kind of the adoption of e-bikes I think that's kind of the intersection of the electric vehicles and the bikes I know there's already like a lot of the younger folks like even teenagers are like starting to ride those as a new form of like transportation so this is something to think of when you're thinking of the bike parking I don't think the e-bikes require any special parking from a regular bike so there might be like an untapped demand there that's going to be growing a lot more than you would think alright anything else cool discussion on this one is closed so we're going to separate it out from quasi-judicial and from the other one so do you have to read anything or are we just it's it's been considered and it's been open to the public there's no affected parties got it it's ready for vote item PM 230068 and that one for the folks on the days is consideration of a request to approve a physical variance and hardship waiver for the Florida-based grocer at West Broward Shopping Center property located 3901 West Broward Boulevard Zone BFCC Gateway Four Corners Commercial and that deals solely with the previous coverage correct do I have a motion I move no second okay we have a motion hold on did you get that I just want to make sure she motion second motion second please call the roll Mr. Speer yes Mr. Stahl yes Ms. Goffund yes Mr. Corman yes Mr. Plass yes Mr. Cavalrici yes Mr. McIntosh no thank you all right the next one PP22-0070 consideration of request for waivers conditional use site plan elevation and landscape plan approval for Florida-based grocer at West Broward Shopping Center property located 3901 West Broward Boulevard Zone BFCC Gateway Four Corners Commercial and this is just the public hearing section of you're just recommending to the city council so noted is there a motion motion to recommend this everything that went on this evening to the city council I'll second we have a motion and a second please call the roll I'm sorry the second was Mr. Stahl oh Mr. Plass okay thank you okay Mr. Speer yes Mr. Stahl yes Ms. Goffund yes Mr. Corman yes I heard it thank you Vicki Mr. Plass yes Mr. Calarisi yes Mr. McIntosh no thank you all right congratulations thank you all the other business that's listed on here is a live local presentation before you start you're not considering this a public hearing correct no this is just informational just a little bit of background one of the I think major pieces of legislation that came out of the last legislative session was this live local act which affects development particularly as it pertains to affordable housing within cities and counties so we wanted to just kind of give a summary because there's a possibility that projects could be coming before this body and before the well actually they wouldn't be coming now that I think about it based upon the new legislation with regard to affordable housing but just wanted to give you some background on what that act is I know a lot of people have been talking about it and just so we understand pretty much what was a part of the live local act so just briefly in terms of timeline the act was approved by the governor on March 29, 2023 and became effective on July 1, 2023 as it pertains to local governments the act primarily aims to address affordable housing development demand in Florida by in four ways first enacting certain preemptions and requirements on cities and counties pertaining to the approval process and zoning considerations for affordable housing development requiring cities and counties to compile and publish a list of all government owned properties that may be suitable for affordable housing providing new property tax exemptions to incentivize affordable housing and finally the state appropriated 711 million in state funding to the Florida Housing Finance Corp to help incentivize the development of affordable housing so I'm just going to kind of go through each of those four main points and just kind of talk about the different aspects there so with regard to preemptions and requirements on local government the act kind of restricts cities and counties traditional authority to determine its own planning and zoning regulations and approval processes for eligible affordable housing projects and so I'll get into that so first of all the act provides local governments with some discretionary authority to approve developments without having to go through full zoning approval so it allows cities and counties to approve affordable housing developments including mixed use developments on any land zone for commercial or industrial to be eligible a proposed development must dedicate at least 10% of the units as affordable housing as defined by state statute and finally it provides that cities and counties are not required to amend their code prior to granting an approval of eligible affordable housing development so this is just discretionary approval so if a project came in meeting these criteria the city council has the ability to determine whether it would wish to provide approvals as granted here or as stated here then there are the required authorizations under the act of allowable uses so with regard to this aspect it requires that cities and counties allow multifamily and mixed use as allowable uses in any area zone commercial industrial or mixed use if at least 40% of the units are affordable for 30 years for mixed use projects at least 65% of the total square foot must be for residential purposes and cities and counties may not require the project to obtain a zoning or land use change variance or comp plan amendment for zoning height or density so these are some big changes within the act where does commercial flex sit into this so does that no longer apply since it would be considered right it would not apply to the live local act so can a developer use the live local act I guess this is my question does the developer is allowed to use the live local act to make an end run around what we have existing at this time that's correct so if someone wanted to come in for example and they were proposing at least 40% for 30 years affordable or if it was a mixed use project at least 65% of the total square foot if it met that criteria then the local government it would be approved they would not have to come before the council as long as it met some other criteria which I'm going to talk about with regard to height and other issues and does that have to be codified in their documents their association documents or their no so statutorily it's approved we're preempted some local governments which I was going to talk about are actually putting some of the standards within their land development regulations I know recently just read a ordinance that the city of Boca implemented where they kind of took the live local act and they kind of implemented or revised their land development regulations to codify within their local code other local governments are saying well we're preempted it's permitted by the state is there really a need to modify the LDRs we'll just follow whatever the state requirement is two questions so would this consume the flex like let's say there's 100 flex units available in the city and a developer proposes something meets this this would have no impact on flex units whatsoever if a developer met these standards the flex units that the city has would still be in its cut right and the second one how does this take into account other necessary infrastructure for density and development in terms of you mean like water sewer other things they will still have to meet concurrency type requirements it does not exempt them from concurrency type requirements okay so and just because it's an actual example Sunrise Boulevard across from Plantation High School industrial area that would apply there road network I'm going to show you a map in a moment that kind of shows the land areas that it could apply so again just so cities and counties may not require the project to obtain a zoning or land use change variance a comp plan amendment for zoning height or density and I'll get into that in a moment a city and county may not restrict the density again talk about density here of the project below the highest allowed density on any land in the city or county or residential is allowed so for the city or plantation the maximum density in the city is 25 dwelling units per acre so under this they would be permitted to utilize that highest density within the city a city or county may not restrict the height of the project below the highest currently allowed height for a commercial or residential building located within one mile of the project or three stories whichever is higher so if they so if they went like you said if they were going from the plantation the industrial area that they wanted to locate in they'd be able to go a mile out and whatever that highest building is within a mile then they would be able to develop at that height darn windmill yeah but the road network there couldn't support a higher density would they have to come in and prove it or with regard to when you say the road network we'd have to run traffic analysis to see what would be supported there so I'm not sure that it wouldn't support it but we'd have to do a traffic analysis there the project must be approved if it satisfies the city and county's land development regulations for multifamily projects and area zone for such use as is otherwise consistent with the comp plan with the exception of regulations for densities height and land use okay so these are some pretty these are some major changes and so and from what I understand overall I think where the legislature was going is they feel that local governments have been a major impediment to increasing the number the density within cities and you know kind of addressing housing affordability because we're we're short if we're going to really provide housing demand and we're several units short of that and they're trying to increase the number of units that are being developed in cities but they consider cities local zoning to be an impediment to that type of development so under what we've seen so far hypothetically speaking Broward Mall property that's commercial comes somebody comes up and says I'm going to drop a couple of 12 story buildings because plantation one is within range it's in one mile right so I'm going to drop a couple of these things in here I'm going to commit to putting it in the documents for 30 years that 10% of those units are it's 40% 40% are affordable so if they say we're going to make 40% of those units affordable because let's face it they put a couple of those buildings up there they're looking at 1,000 units they could drop 1,000 units onto that property committing 400 of them to be affordable per state statute so that's the low very low medium moderate right they'd be limited to 25 dwelling units per acre so whatever that number hold on because the county is 50 per acre so could they use a density of 50 per acre because no it would be the local it would be the city's maximum which is 25 go to the next slide there the CC may not restrict the density of the project below the highest allowed on any land in the city or county where the residence is allowed so the fact that we have a city limit caps it at the 25 per acre yes and the county has its own right for its right okay cool that was the big question okay okay yeah so did I go through all of those points one mile three stories whichever is higher the project must be approved yes okay and then finally the city county must consider reducing parking requirements for the project if it is within a half mile of a major transit stop okay and then a city and county with less than 20 percent of its land designated for commercial or industrial uses is required to approve a multi-family project as a mixed-use project okay so if they meet this last criteria if a city has less than 20 percent of its land designated for commercial or industrial then proposals that come in must be mixed-use so that's that's another and just to go to our map we do have less than 20 percent of our land so we do meet this last criteria as a local government concerning the must consider reducing parking requirements what does that mean exactly does that mean like there has to be an analysis that's presented and the commission or whoever can give it a thumbs up or thumbs down for the parking well to tell you the truth this is one there's some gray areas in this statue for me this is one of the gray areas because one space I mean am I just going to you know we don't really know yet there are a lot there's some areas in here that I think it's probably going to end up in some legal action because another area is that you have to use multi-family multi-family district standards for development of it for the multi-family use so we have several multi-family districts so which district so that's you know that's something that's come up we've had some meetings we've had some presentations that have been put on by the Florida chapter of the you know APA and you know they pointed out that these are some of the gray areas so that's a good question yeah all right yes so to right so yeah yeah yeah yes there is you're correct but yeah but as I said there's you know I think there's some things that probably may be even may be clarified in the next session or what have you as we kind of move along here but this is a map city of plantations so we've just kind of highlighted the mixed-use districts the industrial districts commercial districts or what have you we are all of those districts combined it's less than 20% so we would fall under this this last requirement here that for we could require mixed-use on those developments back to the map yeah so we got that one commercial area that's up what is that Sunrise right by Flamingo there all the way over yes all the way over out near Sunrise so they could put some high-density housing there if it was proposed that would meet the wow the acres are going to go crazy okay cool so it's a possibility 8601 is up there and it is in it is highlighted as one of the qualifying land uses is this is this presentation available for like individual use like would would I be able to get like a copy of the presentation I will provide you with a copy yeah absolutely so yeah and I just wanted to show this was sort of sort of development was proposed here again in terms of the height allowance you could go out a mile and whatever that height the major the highest building is that's the that's the new height yes well that's a actually that's a story building less than a mile away but it's in sunrise yeah it's within a mile radius that's that's a good you know I'd have to go back and look at that I would argue that it would have to be within the city but I mean that may be something that we'd have to look at legally there's a lot of ambiguous areas within that law that's a that's a good question so particularly for for those parcels out near flamingo so very good so then there's some other aspects again the act also requires an inventory of publicly owned vacant lands so that by october 1st 2023 every and every three years thereafter cities and counties must create an inventory of lands it owns that are appropriate for use as affordable housing requires independent districts within cities and counties to also develop a similar inventory and also requires cities and counties to make their inventories publicly available on its website so this is something that we're working on to identify if there are any publicly owned lands that are suitable is there any independent districts in plantation yes there are there's some water there's some water districts old plantation water district there's the plantation acres paid plantation acres improvement district and south florida water management there are several special districts or independent districts within the city I'm not sure that they have based upon their you know their mission that they have inventory that would be suitable to meet this requirement I was curious yes that's another ambiguity with the statute what suitable means yes so but yeah so and we're working on we've already actually kind of done an analysis because this is one of the things that's currently required as part of the AHAC committee and some of the statutory requirements for AHAC to put that inventory out processing of permits and development applications so it requires cities and counties to maintain on their websites a policy procedures and expedited processing of building permits and or development orders required by law to be expedited this is something that again is part of the affordable housing action committee we've already worked on policy that we fleshed out we presented to the to the council and so you know we are pretty much ready to we'll be able to meet this requirement and get it published also within 10 days of an applicant submitting a development application to a city or county if the city or county does not provide notice that the applicant has not submitted the properly completed application the application will be automatically deemed completed and accepted so this is something that we are working on with our new requirements to make sure that we respond very quickly to applications that are submitted conservation lands it requires each manager of conservation lands to include in its land management plan identify conservation lands that may be appropriate for transfer to a city or county and use for affordable housing and then there's some tax exemptions that was passed as part of the act property tax exemption for non-profit owned land leased for a minimum of 99 years and made affordable to households up to 120% of AMI this exemption becomes effective on January 1st 2024 and sunsets on December 31st 2059 and requires no actions by local governments it also provides a new option for cities and counties to provide tax exemptions for projects with at least 50 units and at least 20% and at least 20% are affordable to households at or below 60% AMI property tax exemption for multifamily projects with more than 70 affordable units for households up to 120% AMI and also new sales tax refund on building materials used for affordable housing projects so developers also have the ability to get sales tax refund for affordable housing materials that's area median income to head to the city's bottom line that's right that's right well oh the 700 okay well 711 let's talk about that so they did set aside some money so the act appropriates 259 million for the state incentive loan program which is what they call the sale program which helps to provide housing the act appropriates 252 million for the state housing initiatives partnership this is the ship program which most local governments participate in we are part we participate in the ship program as such we had to develop an affordable housing action committee the city plantation will receive as part of the upcoming FY2324 year 1,079,830 in ship funding the act appropriates 100 million for the newly codified hometown heroes program the act appropriates 100 million for an inflation response program and the act appropriates 100 million for a live local tax donation program as well so that's that's some of the money that the legislature kind of set aside to promote affordable housing and then lastly the preemption of rent control it prohibits cities and counties from enacting rent control requirements so we cannot control even though people come in and complain to us every day my rent is going up it preempts local governments from getting into that ball game and that's just a kind of a brief summary just to let you know how that act affects local governments and the fun that we have ahead of us so yeah you're going to be earning your keep anybody have any other questions no I think you mentioned in the beginning that some cities are looking to update their ordinances while others were just going to keep as is what was the temperature of plantation of getting their codes up to date we're looking at that I'm going to discuss it with legal too part of my I mean I have no issue with really codifying it the problem is once you put it in your code the state will often do you know through us you know successive you know sessions modify stuff and so you've got to keep you know changing your code to keep up with the state I mean it's something you can do it's not that hard to do but you've got to stay on top of it some local governments are just saying we'll just you know put something in the land development regulations which just kind of point people to the particular state statute which is applicable and whatever changes happen there is what changes the local government would recognize so we're considering with staff we've just started talking about it so I'm not sure which way we'll go on that that makes sense alright if nothing else meeting is adjourned thank you